"Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
— Augusten Burroughs
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
"You don't have to light the whole sky. Sometimes a single match in the dark is enough to prove the night doesn't last forever."
— Lawrence Nault
"Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life."
— Rodolfo Costa
"It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning."
— Gene Roddenberry
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
— John Locke
"Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking."
— Rick Steves
"Be purposeful about putting yourself in a stimulating environment where your creativity can take flight."
— Germany Kent
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
— Saint Augustine
"It's not too late. Some of your very best memories haven't even happened yet."
— Eleanor Brownn
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
— Jane Austen
"Things are always better in the morning."
— Harper Lee
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey
"Courage, dear heart."
— C. S. Lewis